Former President George W. Bush told Parade Magazine that he hopes his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), will run for president in 2016.

When asked if the country was ready for another Bush as president, he said: “That’s for Jeb to figure out, you know what I mean? I would hope that people would judge [him], if Jeb were to run, on his merits and his track record….So I hope he will run.”

Warner Jones, digital program manager on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, told Campaigns and Elections that it would have taken Romney’s campaign an extra two years to match the digital infrastructure assembled by President Obama’s reelection effort.

“Romney’s digital team was a fraction of the incumbent’s–32 people compared to some 200 working for Obama’s digital operation. Moreover, almost half of the Romney digital operation was done by outside consultants–only 17 were in house.”

Ron Brownstein: “On the one hand, the defeat showed how difficult it is for gun control advocates to reach the 60 vote threshold required to break a filibuster in an institution whose two-Senator per state apportionment magnifies the impact of small, heavily rural states where guns are interwoven into the culture.”

“On the other, the vote suggested that, after years in which gun control has been sublimated as a political issue, support for expanding background checks and possibly further steps has again become a political norm in almost all of the blue-leaning states that underpin the recent Democratic advantage in the race for the White House.”

Derek Willis notes there are a number of ways to identify House members vulnerable in their re-election bids, “but one of the best is to look at who has received the most money from their colleagues in the run-up to the March 31 closing date.”

“By that standard, Timothy H. Bishop and Sean Patrick Maloney, Democrats of New York; Ron Barber, Democrat of Arizona; and Rodney Davis, Republican of Illinois, lead the pack, which is dominated by freshman Democrats.”